Stories in Digital Media

January 28th – February 1st 2009 (Wed–Sun) at the House of World Cultures Berlin

Looking beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of environmental catastrophe prevalent in the global warming debate, transmediale.09 shifts the focus of this challenge to the broader cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the collapse of the northern ice barrier reveals. Are we about to reach another historically succinct moment of unavoidable and revolutionary change, a point of no return leading to an unforeseeable global transformation akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago? Will it be a time in which we realise that everything will be different, without knowing how everything will be different?

Early Bird rebates until December 19th.

I am planning to have a trip like in the last time. Contact me (see the authors page) for more info.

HI, currently at the Reina sofia museum there is an interesting exhibition called Máquinas&almas, souls&machines, a very appropriate to name to discuss in our digital media times . The aim at this exhibition is to explore those blurry areas where art and technology meet and melt, for that purpose they propose us a trip through the work of a generation of people whose pieces marked remarkable milestones in defining limits and positions in new media practice and critique.

Material : a short video about it and a photo gallery here.

Sound gets processed into video and back, ranging from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). Every SKIF++ performance is improvised, but based on structures that give each set its distinct character.

Hi, sometime without sharing something here but currently my thesis work consumes all my time.

Machinic language, I arrived to this blog [Social fiction] because of my research about machinic and assemblege theories.

Read the rest of this entry »

Read the rest of this entry »

Here you’ll find an interesting TV Interview with Video Art Pioneer Nam June Paik. vvork is exclusively blogging a series of interviews with different artists recently.

A few years ago, when I dreamed of being a famous designer, one of the first great and inspiring websites I stumpled upon was neave’s, an interaction designer from the UK.

Read the rest of this entry »

This morning i got a newsletter from openFrameworks announcing an oF lab at ars electronica festival in linz in september. They are looking for 8 participants who would like to be part of the team during the festival. application deadline in on wednesday. more details here: http://www.openframeworks.cc/ars/

Let me channel your attention on a project Mark showed some of us last week.
Google Will Eat Itself

We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end “we” own it!